A sign held by a teacher at a rally at the Arizona Capitol on June 5, 2024, to advocate for restrictions on the state’s school voucher system, known as Empowerment Scholarship Accounts. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)
OPINION | Why Save Our Schools Arizona is suing to stop the GOP’s trickery aimed at blocking voucher reforms
Arizona voters, the Republican-led state legislature is so scared of you having a voice in how your tax dollars are spent that they will resort to trickery, deceit, and downright unconstitutional behavior in order to void your vote on the Protect Education Act — a citizen’s initiative to reform Arizona’s $1 billion private school voucher program.
Judging by the more than 420,000 signatures turned in earlier this month by parents, educators, and community members to qualify the Protect Education Act for the November ballot, Arizona voters very much want to pass these commonsense reforms...
One of the grantees affected by new federal rules was Children’s Aid, a 170-year-old organization in New York City that served 1,200 youth each year with its nearly $1 million grant. Among the staff members affected are peer educators who were hired for summer roles in the teen pregnancy prevention program. (Courtesy of Children’s Aid)
The Trump administration shifts teen pregnancy prevention from contraception to fertility tracking, abstinence and marriage
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.”
The plan will also emphasize abstinence from sex and the importance of marriage.
In doing so, it will pivot away from...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer watches a crowd of protesters at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. (Photo by Ben Ackman/New Jersey Monitor)
US Senate Dems press Mullin to ensure all immigration agents have body cameras
WASHINGTON — A supermajority of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus has asked Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to deploy body cameras to all federal immigration officers, following deadly shootings of immigrants in Texas and Maine.
In a July 19 letter addressed to Mullin, 38 Senate Democrats and...
Louisiana State Police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement make an arrest last year. A federal appeals court covering Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas delivered a rare court victory for the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy. (Photo courtesy of ICE)
Rare court win for Trump detention policy as 5th Circuit blocks release of three immigrants in Texas
The Trump administration claimed a rare court victory for its embattled immigration detention policy when an appeals court, covering three states with large detention centers, agreed to stay court rulings that freed three Texas immigrants during an appeal.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a terse July 21 ruling, agreed to stay three Texas court rulings that freed men who have no criminal record...
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House passes GOP bill tying new voter ID rules to congressional stock trading restrictions
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans passed a measure to curb stock trading by members of Congress that was packaged with an unrelated voter ID bill, part of President Donald Trump’s push for major federal involvement in elections.
The legislation passed by a vote of 232-198. All Republicans and 13 Democrats voted in favor.
The bill faces possible headwinds in the narrowly split Senate where...
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